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The Story Behind the Weather - By Forecaster John Ensworth M.S. - 

The Discussion of Weather Events Daily for Philadelphia and Pennsylvania

 Last updated: 02/07/2004 06:13 PM
 

Good Afternoon Philadelphia!   

    I'm glad to announce that these discussions will continue until at least the end of February (it's a short month)! 
    I have the necessary server space (especially with missed days!).  

In short: What you see, is what you're going to get, for about a week or MORE!  40F for highs, and upper 20'sF for lows and partly cloudy.  

In the Long:  Well, with THAT storm out of the way, things are going to get very quiet around here. You can see the last 24 hours of rain up the east coast.   When it was all said and done, we received 1.90" of rain at Philadelphia airport. 

The snow HAS melted and is gone for now. 

And other than some snow flurries and light dustings happening up and down the Appalachian mountains and westward, not much organized is happening locally. 

The winter coded radar shows the light band of snow, some of it lake effect snows out west. 

Temperatures are in the 30's (above freezing still) in the City (which is why the eastern most echoes above are coded as mixed ice/rain and rain further east. 

The future is as this:  Sunday 1pm and a BIG fat high pressure system dominates the eastern half of the nation. Nice clear calm (and fairly warm) weather is the word. 

Monday 7am and the weather is still quiet under the high pumping south winds on its west side northward with warmer temperatures. And don't worry much about that front out there, most of the punch will pass to the north, but more on that Monday. 

There isn't much else to say with such a nice forecast. Enjoy the quiet weather.  

Meteorologist  John Ensworth

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